This film is playing at the local artbarn but I don't see it on Vudu yet (sometimes Roadside will put them there). It's by the director of "Me, You and Everything Else" which was a bit of a hit with folks here if I recall right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_l05MZ9y8A Story of a thirty-something couple whose decision to adopt a cat changes their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in themselves and each other. As for Terence Malick, I've read where some folks think there is no such person but the name of a production company and team that makes those movies. That's why "Malick" doesn't show up for interviews. In the extras for "The New World" the cameraman was shown directing the scenes. Sorta like you can have a "ghost writer" you can have a "ghost director." I've mentioned before that I knew a very famous horror writer than lived in the town near where I grew up. He ran at the sight of a camera and his publicist was played him on the book covers and at signings. On 08/19/2011 11:08 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "noah"<wayback71@...> wrote: >> Barry did you see Tree of Life? I have to see it a second >> time. Amazing, altho not perfect. > I haven't. It hasn't been around where I could see it, > either in theaters here or on the torrent lists. I am > not the world's biggest Terence Malick fan, but I'm > willing to give it a try. > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb<no_reply@> wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff"<rorygoff@> wrote: >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb<no_reply@> wrote: >>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff"<rorygoff@> wrote: >>>>>> * * Many thanks, Barry! Loving time-travel as we both do, "the >>>>>> wife" and I are going to see it tonight :-) >>>>> I think you'll enjoy it. >>>> * * And you thought right. At least in the immediate afterglow, >>>> I would say this is my favorite Woody Allen to date, though >>>> Manhattan was right up there. But I don't recall being moved >>>> to tears by Allen before, and this one did that several times. >>>> And what a marvelous job of casting. Those *were* Papa Hemingway >>>> and Picasso and Gertrude Stein and Cole Porter and F. Scott and >>>> Zelda, and Touolouse-Lautrec... >>>> Thanks again, Barry. >>> No problemo. It's rare these days for me to find a film >>> that I actually feel like "reviewing," in the sense of >>> writing a full review of. There is just so much dreck >>> out there. Now that you've seen the film, you might like >>> Roger Ebert's review of it: >>> >>> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110524/REVIEWS/110529987/1001/reviews >>> >>> I think Roger just nails both the charm of the film, and >>> its problems. To a younger generation, many of whom texted >>> their way through high school and even college and don't >>> have any idea who these great artists of 1920's Paris were, >>> the clever asides and one-liners in the film would be >>> meaningless. But to those of us who get all the references, >>> they're hilarious -- like Gil's suggestion for a movie plot >>> to Luis Bunuel, which he just doesn't get, and Dali's passing >>> mention of an idea for a painting based on his perception of >>> Gil, which just happens to be a painting that most art lovers >>> aware of his work would know. Woody must have had a *ball* >>> writing this script, because it shows in the amount of FUN >>> that trickles through. >>> >>> Like Roger Ebert, I consider Woody Allen a national treasure. >>> But his work in these later years has gotten as cynical and >>> jaded as he has (he gives the most depressing personal inter- >>> views in history), and I just haven't really enjoyed much >>> since "Hollywood Ending." Interestingly, that film had a >>> strong Paris connection, too. Maybe, like Gil, Woody should >>> think of moving there...it seems to reinvigorate him and >>> bring out the great filmmaker inside that he'd forgotten >>> about. >>> >>> Loved the "laugh line" about what happened to the detective. >>> That was real Old School Woody Allen stuff. >>> >>> >>>>> Are you old enough to remember >>>>> Woody Allen's first screenplay? He didn't direct, but it >>>>> was called "What's New Pussycat." In that film he had the >>>>> hero (played by Peter O'Toole) and himself (played by... >>>>> uh...himself) sit in a Paris cafe at which Van Gogh, >>>>> Toulouse-Lautrec, and other famous Parisians were also >>>>> sitting. So this fantasy has been with him for a long >>>>> time. >>>> >>>> * * And thanks too for this morsel -- I have not seen the whole movie yet, >>>> but I have gotten as far as that great cafe scene. Loved Van Gogh's >>>> bandaged ear! >>>> > >
